Flare's default colors overtaken by Windows 7?

[General Confusion]

Just got a new machine with Windows 7, and my accordion buttons and title bars in Flare are blue. I've searched Windows 7 forums and it seems like there's nothing to be done about all of this blue, but I didn't think it would take over Flare, too. Any suggestions on how to get Flare back to the colors I had on XP?

[SteveS]

I'm not sure what you are getting at...

The colour used by an application (in this case Flare) come from the system settings so there isn't much you can do about changing Flare without changiung the entire system.

It sounds as if you had changed XP from its default setting (blue) to another, I think green and silver were the alternatives.

If you right click the Windows 7 desktop and select Personalise from the contextr menu you are able to select different themes. Changing to basic or Windows Classic will remove the aero effect. Selecting Window Color at the bottom will allow you to change colour on all sorts of objects.

HTH

[LTinker68]

As an addendum, just be aware that any custom colors you identified in Flare (e.g., background color for a CSS element, color for a decoration frame in page layout, etc.) will have to be re-added to the project(s) in Flare because it (for some strange reason) saves those color definitions in the registry, not the project. For instance, our corporate colors include a specific shade of blue, so my heading 1 text has that blue color specified. When I specified that color in the stylesheet via the color picker, that shade definition (the hex value) was stored in the registry so it's available to all projects (I personally think it should be defined in the project so it's specific to the project, not in the registry). However, if I move to another computer, although the stylesheet will have the h1 tag defined with the hex value for that color, that color won't appear in the color picker as a saved "chip", so I'd need to re-enter the hex values and resave it in the color picker so I can reference it elsewhere in Flare, if needed.

Hopefully that all made sense.

BTW, the above doesn't explain what you're experiencing -- I think Steve addressed it -- but I thought I'd point it out since you switched computers. (I'm assuming you switched and didn't upgrade.)

[NorthEast]

The Flare interface does look different between XP and Vista, and presumably in Win7 too.

I use the default Window colour schemes; on my XP machine the interface is all shades of blue with orange highlights, but on Vista it looks quite washed-out in shades of grey/white with blue highlights.